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Helios747

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Registered: 2012-11-17

Posts: 12

Font spacing strange in terminal. Does not happen in urxvt

Hello, I'm trying to use either xfce4 terminal or lxterminal and they both render text in a very strange way, no matter what font or size I use, example below.

 

This doesn't happen in urxvt, but I'd prefer to use xfce4 term or lxterm because they have tabs.

Last edited by Helios747 (2016-03-10 22:16:52)

Hwiparam

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-09-26

Posts: 95

Re: Font spacing strange in terminal. Does not happen in urxvt

As I can see, the font used in your terminal is not a monospaced one, which is important in every CLI terminal.
What you can do is to enter preferences (or something similar - I don't use XFCE4 Terminal) and set the terminal font to "DejaVu Sans Mono" for example, or any other monospaced font - a small hint for you: Monospaced fonts are usually marked as "*Mono", e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono, Liberation Mono, Droid Sans Mono etc.